Prominent Hill Mine promises jobs boost

Mining company Oz Minerals says production at an underground mine at its Prominent Hill Mine will begin next year.

The company's general manager, Brian Kilagriff, told a conference in Whyalla yesterday, about 150 jobs will be created.

He says extra rooms have been built on site to accommodate the staff.

"The mine life that we currently have for the open pit is eight years and the underground mine will operate concurrently to that, so it doesn't increase the mine life but what it does is give us a consistant production profile and the underground mine will certainly help us with that," he said.